| 1976-07-18
Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
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| 1976-02-15
The 1976 Constitution of Cuba is adopted by the national referendum.
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| 1976-10-06
Massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom, by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
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| 1976-09-21
Seychelles joins the United Nations.
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| 1976-01-12
The UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
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| 1976-07-27
Former Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals.
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| 1976-08-12
Between 1,000-3,500 Palestinians killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War
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| 1976-11-19
Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal.
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| 1976-12-03
An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley. He is shot twice, but plays a concert two days later.
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| 1976-01-21
Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
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| 1976-09-18
Mao Zedong's funeral takes place in Beijing.
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| 1976-12-15
Samoa becomes a member of the United Nations.
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| 1976-10-22
Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
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| 1976-12-01
Angola joins the United Nations.
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| 1976-02-24
Cuba: national Constitution is proclaimed.
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| 1976-11-23
Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.
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| 1976-02-12
Actor Sal Mineo is stabbed to death in West Hollywood.
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| 1976-03-03
5 workers are killed by the police in a demonstration in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
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| 1976-08-08
As part of the ABA-NBA merger agreement, a dispersal draft was conducted to assign teams for the players on the two ABA franchises which had folded.
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| 1976-10-06
New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and associates and ends the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.
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| 1976-12-02
Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
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| 1976-07-21
Christopher Ewart-Biggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
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| 1976-04-07
Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.
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| 1976-06-25
Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
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| 1976-03-04
The first Cray-1 supercomputer is shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.
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| 1976-07-10
The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy.
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| 1976-03-24
A general strike takes place in the People's Republic of Congo.
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| 1976-07-31
Viking program: Viking 1 – NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo.
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| 1976-12-05
The United Nations General Assembly adopts Pakistan's resolution on security of non-Nuclear States.
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| 1976-08-18
In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom, the Axe Murder Incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
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| 1976-09-10
A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
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| 1976-09-21
Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet.
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| 1976-02-02
The Groundhog Day gale hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.
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| 1976-10-06
Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados after two bombs, placed on board by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded. All 73 people on-board are killed.
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| 1976-07-17
History of East Timor: East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
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| 1976-02-27
The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
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| 1976-07-28
The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan, the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
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| 1976-07-20
Hank Aaron hits his 755th home run, the final home run of his career.
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| 1976-05-24
The London to Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins.
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| 1976-07-17
The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team.
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| 1976-04-04
Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
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| 1976-03-09
Forty-two people die in the 1976 Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
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| 1976-10-13
The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle was obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C.
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| 1976-02-20
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
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| 1976-11-08
A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.
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| 1976-02-19
Executive Order 9066 is rescinded by President Gerald R. Ford's Proclamation 4417
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| 1976-04-13
The United States Treasury Department reintroduced the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
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| 1976-06-22
The Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
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| 1976-08-21
Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea.
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| 1976-02-05
The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
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| 1976-02-04
In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
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| 1976-10-04
Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST).
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| 1976-07-02
Fall of the Republic of Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam declares their union to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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| 1976-07-20
Vietnam War: The U.S. military completes its troop withdrawal from Thailand.
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| 1976-05-08
The rollercoaster Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
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| 1976-08-07
Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
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| 1976-06-05
Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States.
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| 1976-01-05
Cambodia is renamed the Democratic Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge.
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| 1976-08-06
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
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| 1976-01-15
Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
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| 1976-03-27
The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
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| 1976-04-11
The Apple I is created.
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| 1976-03-26
Queen Elizabeth II sends the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.
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| 1976-06-27
Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
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| 1976-04-05
In the People's Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen incident.
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| 1976-10-20
The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan and Luling, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.
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| 1976-08-14
The Senegalese political party PAI-Rénovation is legally recognized. PAI-Rénovation thus becomes the third legal party in the country.
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| 1976-07-19
Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
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| 1976-04-01
Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
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| 1976-07-04
Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
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| 1976-03-16
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons.
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| 1976-09-06
Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States.
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| 1976-12-26
The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded.
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| 1976-05-06
An earthquake strikes Friuli, causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages.
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| 1976-06-16
Soweto uprising: a non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
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| 1976-06-28
The Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
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| 1976-06-29
The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
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| 1976-06-14
The trial of Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther, begins at Oxford Crown Court .
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| 1976-11-15
René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.
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| 1976-09-16
Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir.
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| 1976-10-19
Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon.
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| 1976-10-13
A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground).
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| 1976-07-01
Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
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| 1976-07-10
One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
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| 1976-10-11
George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.
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| 1976-10-12
The People's Republic of China announces that Hua Guofeng is the successor to the late Mao Zedong as chairman of Communist Party of China.
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| 1976-04-01
The Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect hoax is first reported by British astronomer Patrick Moore.
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| 1976-07-20
The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
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| 1976-07-29
In New York City, the "Son of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
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| 1976-09-17
The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.
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| 1976-03-24
In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process. Since 2006, a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice is held on this day.
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| 1976-07-22
Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during the imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War
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| 1976-09-19
Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew.
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| 1976-09-03
Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
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| 1976-03-04
The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London via the British parliament.
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| 1976-04-01
Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the Northeastern U.S..
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